--- This was on the top of my parse-opts branch. Figured I'd send it along to see if anyone else cares about this sort of thing. Easily nuked... Since we're using associative arrays in pacman-key, 4.0 is a requirement. However, 4.0 is also full of bugs, so Allan and I agreed that 4.1 would be a better minimum requirement to avoid unresolvable bug reports. configure.ac | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index a6114f8..b325fbb 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -148,7 +148,15 @@ AC_PROG_AWK AC_PROG_CC_C99 AC_PROG_INSTALL AC_CHECK_PROGS([PYTHON], [python2.7 python2.6 python2.5 python2 python], [false]) -AC_PATH_PROGS([BASH_SHELL], [bash bash4 bash3], [false]) +AC_PATH_PROGS([BASH_SHELL], [bash bash4], [false]) + +AS_IF([test "x$BASH_SHELL" = "xfalse"], + AC_MSG_WARN([*** bash >= 4.1.0 is required for pacman scripts]), + [bash_version_majmin=`$BASH_SHELL -c 'echo "${BASH_VERSINFO[[0]]}${BASH_VERSINFO[[1]]}"'` + if test "$bash_version_majmin" -lt 41; then + AC_MSG_ERROR([*** bash >= 4.1.0 is required for pacman scripts]) + fi + unset bash_version_majmin]) # find installed gettext AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-ngettext]) -- 1.7.10